For the moment you should be able to use a boot floppy.  I'd have
expected an old system to be able to see a boot partition at the
beginning of the disk but not the whole 80GB.  What message do you get
when you try to boot it?

Steve
Elburn@aol.com wrote:
> 
> At the install fest it was determined that I had bad memory in my old system
> and could not install. (I am ashamed to admit that I don't know the name of
> the gentelman who spent all day trying to help me, but it was to no avail, my
> machine was beyoud help).  To make a long soriey short:  I replaced the
> memory, replaced old drives with an 80gb western digitial.  The bios doesn't
> recognize this drive, however Mandrak's boot CD finds the disk recognizes it
> as 78gb and proceeds to install clean.  now the machine will not boot as bios
> doesn't find the drive.
> 
> Soulations:
> 
>        1.  Upgrade BIOS (Can't till monday there are closed till then)
> 
>        2.  Work around?  (here is where you tell me how to do this without
> upgrading
>              bios).
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Al Templeton
> 
> 
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